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Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts Architecture Ecologies Economies Technologies & Feminisms Book of Abstracts 13th International AHRA Conference November 17—19, 2016 www.architecturefeminisms.org KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Stockholm, Sweden Architecture & Feminisms Intro duction Book of Abstracts 13th architectural humanities research association international conference architecture and feminisms: ecologies, economies, technologies november 17–19, 2016 The 2016 AHRA conference addresses connections between architecture and feminisms with an emphasis on plural expressions of feminist identity and non-identity From radical feminist, to lesbian feminist, to black feminist, to post-colonial feminist, to crip feminist, to queer feminist, to trans feminist, to Sara Ahmed’s feminist killjoy, to feminist men, to posthuman feminist, to the liberal and neoliberal feminist, to material feminist, to marxist feminist, to eco feminist, to Roxane Gay’s popular Bad Feminist and many others, even to post feminist voices, the claim to feminism continues to be tested and contested And this conference will be no exception Between architecture and feminisms our specific focus is upon transversal relations across ecologies, economies and technologies Specifically, we are concerned with the exploration of ecologies of practice, the drawing out of alternative economies, and experimentation with mixed technologies, from (witch) craft to advanced computational technologies We situate this conference event amidst what has come to be known as the Anthropocene, a controversial term that calls for the recognition of the formation of a geologic age in which global environmental conditions have been radically altered by accelerating processes of human driven industrialization Architecture has fully participated in these processes, and we believe that an exploration of feminist, critical, and radical epistemologies and ontologies, methodologies and pedagogies in architecture — especially in light of the rise of artistic, design or practice-based research — might enable us to shift the values and habits that produce our near exhausted existential territories Amidst what can be deemed a generalized, world-wide depletion of our material resources, social relations, and environments, the work of researchers and practitioners represented in this book of abstracts explores how critical concepts and feminist design tools might offer radical and experimental approaches to creating more sustainable and resilient mental, social and environmental ecologies The AHRA 2016 Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies conference creates a space in which to exchange and collectivise current research on critical, radical and feminist approaches to architecture that can be applied by all to the relay between architectural discourse and practice Although we acknowledge the historical and contemporary need for separatist spaces, we not intend to create exclusionary places and practices at this event, but to experiment with ways of ethically coping in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable and contested Our call appropriates Isabelle Stenger’s cosmopolitics, wherein she outlines an ecology of practices as a form of ethical experimentation in the sciences, which we suggest can also be applied to architecture We also draw our theoretical framework from Félix Guattari’s three ecologies: mental, social, and environmental, and their necessarily transversal relations More generally we create an opportunity for the thoroughgoing reengagement in the histories and futures of feminist critical and radical practices toward the re-imagination of our precarious environment-worlds We draw inspiration from the active archives of feminist and radically engaged precursors, existing, and reimagined, whose diverse projects, manifestos, and concepts can be reinvented in opposition to arguments that declare the approach of the end-times Architecture & Feminisms Themes thematic areas have emerged across the collected abstracts: Ecologies / Economies / Technologies / Histories / Pedagogies / Styles / Domesticities / Profession We assume that each thematic area inherently organises diverse ecologies of practice, and that the question of precarious mental, social, environmental ecologies pertains to all We likewise assume that across these categories there can be discovered many explorative and even performative approaches to architectural research expressing a sensitivity to intersections of gender, race, sexuality, class, age, ability, ethnicity, and so forth Each thematic area is curated by a team of convenors who have a history, or an association with Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH Stockholm Ecologies: Looks to our fragile and tenacious relational ecologies, including ecologies of practice across disciplines and practices Here Peg Rawes’s anthology Relational Ecologies has been a great inspiration, as well as Félix Guattari’s essay The Three Ecologies Economies: Searches for alternative economies that persist amidst the hegemonic forces of neoliberal advanced Capitalism and is much inspired by the work of economic geographers J.K Gibson Graham Technologies: Acknowledges the relationship between craft and advanced technologies, and draws on thinking in Science and Technology Studies, including feminist technologies The legacy of philosopher of science Donna Haraway can be acknowledged here Histories: Is concerned with the historical archive as an active force in the present and engages in critical histories of feminist theories and practices in architecture, including the theories and practices of overlooked minorities and communities Book of Abstracts Pedagogies: Directly addresses the crucial issue of the formation of architects and the potential of radical and critical pedagogies This theme acknowledges the seminal work of bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, and also Gavin Butt regarding intersectional, queer, race, and post-colonial concerns contextualised in architectural education specifically, and in the practice and discipline of architecture more generally Styles: Supports a variety of presentation formats, including papers, installations, interventions, dialogues, demonstrations, performances, and places a central emphasis on queer spatiality and aesthetics, in order to take up the unfinished revolutions of such thinkers as Gloria Anzaldúa, Hélène Cixous, Audre Lorde, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Domesticities: Challenges the uncritical allocation of feminine attributes to what is assumed to be the secluded and private sphere of home life The cordoning off of the space of domesticities, the binaries set up between public and private, are issues that a critically engaged architecture should be prepared to persistently interrogate Profession: Is where architectural practitioners and researchers must act to make a difference when it comes to the adequate representation of women and minority groups in roles of leadership and influence In what ways can the work habits and culture of the profession be transformed through the interventions of feminist theory, analysis and activism? Architecture & Feminisms Schedu le overview thursday 17 november Book of Abstracts 11.00—11.30: FIKA (coffee break) 11.30—13.00: Parallel Panels 03: Various Rooms Location: School of Architecture KTH 13.00—14.00: LUNCH 11.45—12.45: STYLES intervention in the entry level KTH Architecture, and installations throughout the conference event 14.00—16.00: Architecture and Feminisms ROUNDTABLE SALONS: Various Rooms 13.00 (A108): Welcome from the AHRA 2016 Organising Committee Katja Grillner: A Brief History of FATALE and Critical Studies in Architecture KTH, and Malin Åberg Wennerholm (KTH Architecture) 13.30—15.00 (A108): KEYNOTE PANEL: Lori Brown (chair) and Parlour (Karen Burns, Justine Clark, Naomi Stead, Gill Matthewson) 15.00—15.30: FIKA (coffee break) 15.30—17.30: Parallel Panels 01: Various Rooms 17.45—18.20 (A108) Amanda Fröler and Aysegul Alayat of Kvinnors Byggforum Presentation of AHRA Architecture and Culture Journal, and Critiques Publications (Igea Troiani) & Publication approach of the conference 18.30—19.30 (A108): KEYNOTE LECTURE by Despina Stratigakos Introduced by: Helena Mattsson 19.30 (KTH Architecture Entry Level) Elke Krasny, Exhibition Opening and Reception Drinks; Book Launch of Meike Schalk, Thérèse Kristiansson, Ramia Mazé, eds, Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice: Materialities, Activisms, Dialogues, Pedagogies, Projections friday 18 november Locations: School of Architecture KTH and DOCH 8.00—9.00 (KTH Architecture Entry Level) taking place — Interstitial Breakfast 9.00—11.00: Parallel Panels 02: Various Rooms 16.00—16.30: FIKA (coffee break) 16.30–16.45: Walk to DOCH School of Dance and Circus KTH Main Campus 16.30—onwards DOCH: STYLES SALON including KEYNOTE DIALOGUE Styles: MYCKET (chair) Yvonne Rock and Fanny Söderbäck Architecture and Feminisms Dinner at DOCH, and SALON continues saturday 19 november Location: School of Architecture KTH 9.00—10.30 (A108): KEYNOTE PANEL Technologies: Introduced by Catharina Gabrielsson Jane Rendell (chair) Katie Lloyd Thomas, May-Britt Öhman, Martin Hultman 10.30—11.00: FIKA (coffee break) 11.00—13.00: Parallel Panels 04: Various Rooms 13.00—14.00: LUNCH and COFFEE 14.00—15.30: Parallel Panels 05: Various Rooms SHORT BREAK 15.50—16.15: Presentation of the 2017 AHRA international conferenceat Birmingham City University (Christian Frost) 16.15—17.15 (A108) KEYNOTE DIALOGUE Ecologies and Economies: Introduced by Meike Schalk Peg Rawes (chair) Doina Petrescu in conversation with Katherine Gibson 17.15—17.30: CLOSING Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts welcome by the conference organizing committee: h é lène frichot, catharina gabrielsson , helena mattsson, karin reisinger , meike schalk opening presentations: malin åberg wennerholm katja grillner Architecture and Feminisms: Welcome Address Thursday 17 November 13.00 Room: A108 Following a welcome by the conference organizing committee (Hélène Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson, Helena Mattsson, Karin Reisinger, Meike Schalk), the conference will open with brief presentations by: Malin Åberg Wennerholm, program director, years to 5, School of Architecture KTH, who has a mandate to act on issues concerning architecture and gender in education; and Amanda Fröler & Aysegul Alayat, representatives of Kvinnors Byggforum (Women’s Building Forum) Sweden Malin Åberg-Wennerholm is an architect and the Program Director at the School of Architecture, KTH Stockholm, and was recently awarded the 2016 KTH “President Gender Equality prize” Her goal is to create a better world at the School of Architecture She is working to integrate gender issues in Architecture's undergraduate education and has started a Gender Equaility Society for students She has developed actions for example producing flyers and other activities that have been implemented among both teachers and students In October she published a Gender Equality and Architecture Pamphlet to be handed out to everyone at the school She takes students' criticism and wishes seriously, and takes responsibility on the basis of her position with great determination driving and realize projects that achieve real change toward a more equal college Katja Grillner is the recently appointed Dean of Faculty at KTH (2015—) Her previous engagements as academic leader include the role of Vice-Dean at the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, ABE (2009—2011), Director of Research at the KTH School of Architecture (2006—2009, 2013—2015), and Chair of Faculty Recruitment ABE (2011—2015) Since 2009 she holds the position as professor of Critical Studies in Architecture Grillner's research on architecture and landscape combines theoretical, historical and literary strategies for spatial exploration Among her book publications are her PhD-dissertation Ramble, linger and gaze — philosophical dialogues in the landscape garden (Stockholm: KTH 2000), as main-editor 01-AKAD — Experimental Research in Architecture and Design (Stockholm: AxlBooks, 2005), and, as co-editor, Architecture and Authorship (London: Black Dog, 2007) Grillner is the director of Architecture in Effect, a national initiative for a strong research environment funded by Formas 2011­— 2016, and co-­founded the feminist architecture teaching and research group FATALE in 2007 Kvinnors Byggforum Presentation Prior to Evening Keynote Lecture at 17.45 Kvinnors Byggforum (KBF) is a Swedish multi-disciplinary network for professional women within architecture, design, urban planning, founded in Stockholm 1981: Over professional borders we share norm critical knowledge and practices, we inspire, empower and challenge each other, institutions, politicians, journalists, as well as other stakeholders, and other agents of change, in order include social and gender perspective more actively During the past 34 years KBF have organized many events, seminars, workshops, lectures, and books and published debate articles Amanda Fröler & Aysegul Alayat are urban planners and engaged in the politics and practice of architecture and planning They co-chair the organization Kvinnors Byggforum Fröler recently produced the project Justice for Loose Space — Exploring Stockholm Under the Bridges, while Alayat is co-author of the research project Mellanstaden, on spatial and social justice in relation to densification of single-family housing neighbourhoods.” Architecture & Feminisms K eynote panel Book of Abstracts parlour: women, architecture, activism karen burns, justine clark, gill matthewson, naomi stead chair: lori brown Architecture and Feminisms: Practices Thursday November 17 13.30—15.00 Room: A108 This keynote by the Parlour collective demonstrates the value of activist scholarship in uncovering the gendered nature of architectural labour and cultures Working collaboratively with architectural communities in Australia, our research has co-produced knowledge in order to effect social change This presentation outlines our tactical feminism: what we did, how we changed the conversation, what we are doing next We begin by noting the vast gap between the sophisticated accounts of identity available in feminist scholarship and the crude gender binaries presence in many architectural workplaces Parlour is grounded in an academic study that investigated why, despite several decades of significant numbers of women graduates, women are still underrepresented in the profession and particularly in leadership positions Here feminist theory must confront the widely held fiction of a neutral profession; in which an individual’s affiliation to class, race, gender and sexual identities is deemed inessential to judgments of professional competency In fact, too often, gendered stereotypes colour judgment We mobilised statistics to prove the profession did, indeed, have a gender problem We conducted a vast online survey of architects that yielded anecdotes from the front-line of offices across the country This gave us the traction to leverage change We deliberately included men to tease out similarities and differences, and to illustrate how the ideology of architecture has different gendering effects upon its male and female subjects Conscious that previous Australian work on this issue had made many recommendations that remained unimplemented, we were determined to have a direct and real impact Parlour began as an online outreach platform for collaboration and engagement between our scholarly work and the profession in Australia, it has since transformed into an activist / advocacy organisation that retains a strong scholarly base This panel will discuss our ongoing negotiations between idealism and pragmatism, exploring how we generated change within and without institutions, from formal policy to backroom activism We have built new activist audiences and communities and both drawn on and revealed the work of previous generations of feminist activists In order to understand sites of gendered identity, feminist theory can usefully shift focus, moving from studies of representation to an analysis of techniques and practices Our study excavated the micro-processes of gendering at work inside the day-to-day lives of architects and organisations We identify the gap between the discipline’s belief in ‘meritocracy’ and opposition to discrimination, and the everyday operations of discrimination and bias down on the ground Despite the circulation of complex formulations of intersectional identity and fluid gender categories, binaries and biases persist Using social media and our web platform, we aim to build audiences and break down the silos between academy and profession, researchers and practitioners, the unknown and well known, the idealized image of architectural production and the realities of life on the office floor Feminist Praxis: Research + Action Lori Brown (Chair) I work to expand the discipline to be more politically engaged and relevant to the general public and raise awareness about our built environment, the influences directly shaping it, how these influences affect people’s lives and to collaborate with others to improve their spatial experiences Three strands have emerged in my work that I will highlight in regards to feminist practice: research focusing on the politics of space, especially as it intersects with issues of gender; discovering opportunities where this research moves into action and activist oriented endeavors engaging real world scenarios; and raising awareness about the role women contribute to the discipline of architecture and creating opportunities for more women to become recognized Architecture & Feminisms In my first book, I foreground the expanding types of feminist practices at varying scales occurring within architecture today and providing a platform for more work by women to be discussed Practices calling into question or critically dismantling power dynamics, those giving voice and representation to people who are often silenced or not represented, others helping to bring communities into action through collaborative design processes and those practices revealing the deeply embedded sociopolitical relationships structuring our spaces This book then led to the co-founding of ArchiteXX, a women and architecture group in New York City that bridges between the academy and practice A few of our efforts will be highlighted to illustrate how are feminist practice takes action As a direct result of requiring architecture to engage a politicalized space, my second book examines the spaces of abortion clinics, women’s shelters and hospitals As polarizing an issue as abortion is in various parts of North America, abortion provides an interesting platform to think through complex relationships of space, a woman’s body, varying degrees of state control, potentials of design thinking in transforming spatial relationships and ways to radically rethink and find agency within them This book has led to several other research tangents including design work for several US clinics, abortion clinic building code analyses and interdisciplinary collaborations exploring reproductive healthcare access extending architecture’s engagement beyond the discipline Dr Karen Burns is Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design at the University of Melbourne She is a frequent contributor to academic and professional architectural journals, a critic, and public commentator on issues in contemporary architecture She has written for Architectural Australia, and AR and is the co-editor of Parlour, a website building discussion and exchange on women, equity and architecture Burns was an active researcher on the Australian Research Council funded project Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architectural Profession: women, work and leadership (2011–2014), which was led by Naomi Stead of the University of Queensland Her academic research focuses on three principal areas: Australian frontier housing and problems of interpretation, late-twentieth-century feminist architectural history and theory, and alliances between architects, aesthetics and manufacturers in mid-nineteenth-century Britain In relation to the last topic she is working on a book titled Object Lessons: Demonstrating Victorian Design Reform, 1835—1870 Lori Brown is a licensed architect in the State of New York and has been teaching at the Syracuse University School of Architecture since 2001 At the intersections of architecture, art, geography, and women’s studies, her work exists within both the more traditional realm of architecture and outside the traditional realm in our broader environments where architecture may not be immediately legible Publications include Contested Space: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals (Routledge 2013) and Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture (Ashgate 2011) In 2008 she was awarded the American Institute of Architects Diversity Best Practice Honorable Mention and a commendation for the Milka Bliznakov Prize for the Feminist Practices exhibition 2008 In 2012, she co-launched with Nina Freedman, ArchiteXX, a women and architecture group in New York City She has been awarded artist residencies at Macdowell, Jentel and Caldera and her work has been exhibited widely She is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the American Association of University Women Book of Abstracts Dr Gill Matthewson has a background as a practising architect in Britain and New Zealand and continues to design But throughout her career she has returned again and again to the issue of women and architecture The latest manifestation of this concern is her PhD thesis ‘Dimensions of Gender: women’s careers in the Australian architecture profession’, which was conferred by the University of Queensland in 2015 and received a Dean’s award for outstanding thesis The thesis was undertaken as part of the Australian Research Council Linkage research project ‘Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work and Leadership.’ Out of this larger project grew the award winning website Parlour: Women, Equity, Architecture (http://archiparlour org/) Gill is a co-founder of and regular contributor to Parlour and led the compilation and analysis of the comprehensive statistical map is at the heart of much of Parlour’s advocacy work Justine Clark is an architectural editor, writer, researcher, critic and advocate She is founding editor of Parlour: women, equity, architecture and former editor of Architecture Australia, the journal of the Australian Institute of Architects Justine is an active participant in public discussions of architecture, she has established and convened various public events and programs, curated exhibitions and has sat on many award and competition juries Her work has won awards for architecture in the media and her broader contribution to the profession was recognised in 2015 with the Marion Mahony Prize Justine is co-author of Looking for the Local: Architecture and the New Zealand Modern (2000), with Dr Paul Walker Justine contributes to both the professional press and scholarly publications Her recent writing on gender and architecture has appeared in MAS Context, Industries of Architecture and is forthcoming in Production Sites and A Gendered Profession Justine is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne Dr Naomi Stead, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at The University of Queensland was from 20112014 the leader of the Australian Research Council Linkage research project ‘Equity and Diversity in the Australian Architecture Profession: Women, Work and Leadership’ She is an associate editor of the award winning website Parlour: Women, Equity, Architecture (http://archiparlour.org/) and a co-founder of Parlour: Inc, a not for profit organisation advancing gender equity in architecture Naomi is editor of the book Semi-detached: Writing, representation and criticism in architecture (Uro, 2012), was from 2011-2014 co-editor of Architectural Theory Review and from 2012-2015 co-editor of Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research She has published in anthologies including Critical Architecture (Routledge, London, 2007), Architecture and Authorship (Black Dog, London, 2007) and Architecture, Disciplinarity and Art (A & S Books, Ghent, 2009); in scholarly journals including the Journal of Architecture, OASE, Performance Research, and JAS: the Journal of Australian Studies As an architecture critic she has more than 50 articles in the Australasian architectural media, and is currently an architecture columnist for The Conversation and Places Journal Architecture & Feminisms K eynote L ecture Book of Abstracts gerdy troost and the führer’s rooms despina stratigAkos chair: helena mattsson (kth stockholm sweden) Architecture and Feminisms: Histories Thursday November 17 18.30—19.30 Room: A108 When Gerdy Troost died in 2003 in the small Bavarian town of Bad Reichenhall, her passing failed to catch the attention of the German or international press, being noted only on the websites of Stormfront and other white supremacist groups This quiet ending hardly seems conceivable for a woman to whom Hitler entrusted a prominent role in his regime, a person he considered a loyal friend and artistic advisor As designer of the Führer’s official and private rooms, architectural critic, and art exhibition jurist, Troost was a powerful arbiter of taste during the Third Reich Her subsequent avoidance of publicity, coupled with architectural historians’ lack of interest in female practitioners, allowed her to fly underneath scholars’ radar and today she is almost unknown And yet, her story reshapes our understanding of the architectural scene in Hitler’s Germany and the regime’s ideological uses of space In this paper, I reflect on the process of writing about Gerdy Troost and her role within the Third Reich’s propaganda machine for my book, Hitler at Home (2015) I explore how her designs for the Führer’s domestic spaces challenge our views not only of National Socialist architecture, but also of Hitler’s image and the role designers played in its creation The Führer’s homes, as presented by Troost, became the stage sets for diplomatic performances and for a widespread and highly successful propaganda campaign to reinvent the dictator as a peaceable neighbor and cultured man I consider the media publicity surrounding the residences, their prewar popularity among German and international audiences, and the lessons they still hold for us today Despina Stratigakos is Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo She is the author of three books that explore the intersections of power and architecture Her most recent book, Where Are the Women Architects? (2016), confronts the challenges women face in the architectural profession Hitler at Home (2015) investigates the architectural and ideological construction of the Führer’s domesticity, and A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City (2008) traces the history of a forgotten female metropolis She has served as a Director of the Society of Architectural Historians, an Advisor of the International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech, a Trustee of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, and Deputy Director of the Gender Institute at the University at Buffalo She also participated on Buffalo’s municipal task force for Diversity in Architecture and was a founding member of the Architecture and Design Academy, an initiative of the Buffalo Public Schools She received her Ph.D from Bryn Mawr College and previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan Architecture & Feminisms K eynote L ecture Book of Abstracts a mother and daughter dialogue between yvonne rock and dr fanny söderbäck to make a soup: sharing, showing, involving, the conference in making a soup yvonne rock and liminal spaces: notes from the daughter of a salonnière fanny söderbäck Architecture and Feminisms: Styles Friday November 18, 16.45—onwards Place: DOCH School of Dance and Circus KTH The salon — most famously embodied in Enlightenment France, but replicated across cultures — defies the boundary between private and public As such, it complicates binary notions such as inside and outside, self and other, the familiar and the strange, as it attempts to combine the intimate with the shared, and the safe with risk-taking Originally held in bedrooms and boudoirs, the salons were traditionally hosted by women, sometimes lesbian women, and provided a space of intellectual interaction and shared discourse at a time when women were still excluded from public and political life What, I ask in this talk, does it mean to share a space such as the salon? What is the space — and time — of that which, like the salon, defies traditional boundaries: the in-between; the intimate; the liminal; the subversive? How is the salon shaped by its own boundaries, and marked by its own modes of inclusion and exclusion? And what, in the context of this conference, is the performative value of staging a salon? The salonnière at this event is my mother, who once hosted me in her body and delivered me into the world Our presence, as mother and daughter, in this space, inscribes it with a set of social dynamics that I will try to unpack What kind of host is a mother, and what kind of space does she provide for her unborn child? What is the time-space of mother-daughter relations, and how might they inform a broader discourse on the dynamics of time and space? What might architects have to learn from the salonnière and the mother, and the particular time-space that they represent? Through engagement with feminist theory and my own reflections on the categories of space and time, I hope to shed light on the nature of the in-between, and speak to its subversive powers Fanny Söderbäck is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research, and taught philosophy for several years at Siena College Fanny has edited Feminist Readings of Antigone (SUNY Press, 2010) and is a co-editor of the volume Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) She is also the editor of a special issue of philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism on the topic of birth Her work has appeared in scholarly journals such as Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, and Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy She is working on a book manuscript titled Revolutionary Time, which treats the role of time as it appears in the work of Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray Yvonne Rock is a cultural producer who has founded and developed several theaters and cultural institutions in Sweden, such as Västanå Teater and Judiska Teatern Yvonne has held multiple positions within the field of cultural politics, both nationally and regionally Among other things, she served as a coordinator for the Swedish year of multiculturalism — a 2006 governmental initiative intended to diversify Swedish cultural institutions She has served on the Board of Trustees in a variety of institutions in the cultural sector as well as in higher education, most notably at the University College of Opera in Stockholm and Karlstad University She has initiated a range of networks among artists, producers, political institutions, and civil society She is the co-founder of TYP Kulturkapital and has extensive experience organizing and moderating conferences and seminars within and beyond academia Architecture & Feminisms K eynote panel Book of Abstracts may-britt Öhman , martin hultman and katie lloyd thomas chair: jane rendell (bartlett uk) introduced by: catharina gabrielsson (kth stockholm sweden) Architecture and Feminisms: Technologies Saturday 19 November 9.00—10.30 Room: A108 the architect as shopper: women, electricity, building products and the interwar ‘proprietary turn’ in the uk katie lloyd thomas “When she was a suffrage worker… [Ellen Wilkinson] believed that the twin keys to women’s earthly paradise were the Vote and Electricity” My research is often concerned with identifying the economic, social and technological forces that constitute new conditions — such as the neonatal intensive care matrix or concrete casting in fabric formwork — whilst at the same time asking what new relations and possibilities they mobilise, both conceptual and material This paper looks at the ‘proprietary turn’ in the 1930s in the UK, that both supported the massive expansion in the development and marketing of building products, and formalised the architect’s role in their distribution Whilst the turn’s significance was widely recognized and debated at the time, it is largely forgotten in histories of the period The focus here is on its impact on women’s lives; on the one hand, through intensive marketing transforming them into the consumers of the new building products and electrical installations, and on the other recruiting them to increase sales By introducing women (real and imagined) at the centre of these transformations: Miss Alma Dicker: Manager and resident architect at The Building Centre in London’s fashionable Bond Street shopping district Mrs Venesta Ripolin: Architectural client and visitor to The Building Centre Miss Elizabeth Benjamin: Architect of East Wall (1936) and specifier of proprietary products Dame Caroline Haslett: Electrical engineer, founder of the Electrical Association for Women Miss Electra Spark: Technician and electrical demonstrator Ellen Wilkinson MP: Suffragist and campaigner for women’s access to electrification I will argue that although the aim was industrial and economic expansion, the proprietary turn brought about opportunities for women, including their entry into architecture Introduction to the labour activist and politician Ellen Wilkinson before her annual EAW address in 1934 As reported in Electrical Age for Women, no.2, 1934, p.653 living in the land- and waterscapes of colonial racist exploitations: situated experiences of hydropower and windpower as architecture of genocide and destruction in jokkmokk, sweden may-britt öhman In the early 20th century, boosters claimed that hydropower was a necessary part of the economic modernization of the Swedish nation This exploitation was made possible only because a successful recolonisation of Sámi territories and people, in which racism was an important ingredient By late 20th century, these discourses were replaced by those promoting hydropower as environmental friendly, as clean and green energy The narratives promoted have both served to invisibilise the experiences of the local inhabitants — Sámi as well as nonSámi — and to silence the voices questioning the environmentally friendliness, safety as well as local benefits of hydropower production In the geographically large municipality of Jokkmokk, with only 5000 inhabitants, the rivers have been hydropower exploited with severe consequences experienced in the everyday life for both people and animals In winter the ice becomes both fragile and treacherous In summer and during fall the large bodies of water — the hydropower reservoirs — become dangerous to cross as the wind can speed up suddenly In Jokkmokk the number of hydropower regulation related deaths is estimated to be on average 1—2 persons per year This would correspond to 180–360 energy production related deaths in the Swedish capital of Stockholm Yet, there are no calls for inquiries, investigations and measurements to ensure public safety around dams Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts report from the city planning project the kitchen of praxagora— turning the private and public inside out Elin Strand R uin I have been commissioned by the The City of Sundbyberg and Marabouparken to develop in dialogue with local women of Hallonbergen, a permanent architectonic intervention — a public kitchen The goal of the project is to add female presence to the public sphere In a pre-study during the spring of 2016 a mobile kitchen was used as a tool to explore the production of commons in the late modernistic housing area, based around the activity of cooking We have been testing well-known specific locations in the area: impediments, passages and stairs being temporarily activated by our domestic presence During the social gatherings a close reading of the play ‘The power of women’ by Aristophanes took place The play tells the story of Praxagora and her sisters persuading their husbands to let the women take over the political power while the men are at war Praxagora turns the private and the public inside out aiming to change her city and the conditions for its public life When imagining this scene, it is striking how women in there position and chore, while cooking in the centre of public activities, hacking mint on their cutting boards and rinsing peppers under pouring water, are simultaneously embracing both the smallest and the largest scale of the city using their hands and their eyes For the permanent intervention we are proposing an outdoor kitchen, a concrete casted replica of a standard kitchen counter top unit Everyone’s ordinary, well-known and loved kitchen unit is thereby relocated from the private home into the public sphere Combining two mirrored kitchens (precisely corresponding to the housing block plan) gives the effect that you are ‘looking into your neighbour’ The absent dividing wall between the flats is shown in a 200 mm gap drawn through the kitchen and the long common table By creating an outdoor function supporting female (often well functioning) networks in everyday life a subversive rereading of the private could be stimulated, addressing gender hierarchies and traditional family patterns The act of cooking together in the “private” kitchen in public will add a layer of belonging — giving women, men, families, teens and others an extended and intimate quality in the common space ELIN STRAND RUIN is an architect/artist working within the field of feministic place- and city making Her work operates at the interface between performative art and architecture exploring the public realm, generating alternative public spaces, primarily to stimulate women to invest time in the public, for the benefit of society During the past 15 years, Strand has exhibited at leading artistic, architectural and planning venues around Sweden and Europe Recent collaborative projects include ‘Knitting House’, ‘My Kitchen’, ‘An animal theater with feelings and weather’, ‘The Kitchen of Praxagora’ and ‘The Feministic Recycling-park’ in collaboration with Spridd & Lovely Landskap Strand is teaching at the School of Architecture, KTH, and runs her own practice: Studio Elin Strand Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts drawing out home-making: contested markets in cape town Huda Tayob Literature on the home largely focuses on the physically defined space of the nuclear family home Anthropologist Mary Douglas has however argued that the home is primarily characterized by a regularity of practices, people, and things within a fundamentally not-for-profit space In a distinct approach, black feminist bell hooks suggests that home is ‘no longer just one place’ but a multiplicity of places For bell hooks, the home-place is furthermore a site of radical potential, regardless of material scarcities This paper draws out the tensions between these alternative conceptions of home by reading them across the everyday architectures of home-making among African refugees in Cape Town This paper draws on ethnographic research, interviews, and drawings undertaken in Cape Town with Fatima and Amina, Somali refugees who run small neighbouring shops within an informal shopping arcade The informal arcade where Fatima and Amina are based is one of many similar in the city, and is primarily inhabited by African refugees and asylum seekers Both have their own stalls in the market, while Amina is additionally a cross-border trader and regularly travels beyond South Africa to source goods These markets are simultaneously safe spaces of opportunity in a violent urban context and highly contested sites The paper argues that despite the transactional and economic nature of these spaces, they act as a fragile home for migrant groups in the city This is partially because these markets are characterised by regular familial and domestic practices, many of which would otherwise take place behind the closed doors of nuclear family homes Yet this is also due to the nature of the trade itself and the goods obtained, both of which contribute to home-making within these spaces This paper contributes to debates on the home, along with scholarship on female migrant traders and parallel economies Huda Tayob practiced as an architect in Cape Town, Mumbai and Tokyo prior to starting her PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where she is currently a doctoral candidate in the history and theory of architecture stream Her doctoral research draws on postcolonial theories, the politics of invisibility and the notion of everyday and minor architectures in order to research Pan-African shopping arcades and new African immigrant enclaves in Cape Town Her PhD draws on her architectural background, and explores the potential of drawing as a form of research Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts academic capitalism in architecture schools: a feminist critique of employability, 24-hour work and entrepreneurship Igea T roiani "The model of the university as a locus for criticism within the dense relations of capitalism depends on the possibility of immanent critique—on locating the contradictions in the rules and systems necessary to production" — Simon Sadler, ‘The Varietes of Capitalist Experience’ in Peggy Deamer ed Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present (2013) Many universities are no longer free institutions In the UK, they are becoming less so, in terms of both their fees and their positioning in relation to the marketplace outside the university This paper examines the current situation that many contemporary universities worldwide are facing due to globalisation, that is of transitioning from institutions for education (Foucault’s ‘premodern or medieval university’) to entrepreneurial businesses (the ‘modern university’), transacting on the basis of a neoliberal system of consuming and producing students, staff, knowledge and research for the purpose of improving nation economies through continuous growth from the engine of innovation Looking particularly at schools of architecture, it discusses firstly a shift in teaching toward student employability rather than speculative practice and research, secondly, a culture of 24-hour work (by students and staff) favouring unpaid, cheaper contingent or contracted labour and which affects work place wellbeing and thirdly how women students and staff in universities are disadvantaged by the turn to economic entrepreneurship (‘entrepreneur’ being a masculine noun in French) which sustains the persistent gender attainment, pay and promotion gaps in universities This paper argues for a “feminist politics for resistance” (Mountz et al 2015) Starting in the university those resistances, grounded in feminist economics and philosophy, should aim to create new models of architectural pedagogy and practice focused on intellectual, ethical, cultural and socially responsible and sustainable agendas for the public not profit making from ‘academic capitalism’ (Slaughter and Leslie 1997) Dr Igea Troiani's research centres on architectural production She examines it from historical, sociological, economic and practice based perspectives She sees that architectural education has an important social role to play in changing the profession of architecture to better respond to its feminisation and diversification Her research creates new forms of architectural history, theory and practice using text, film and exploratory visual methods of research She is a partner in the architectural firm, Original Field of Architecture Ltd and a founding director of the architecture film production company, Caryatid Films Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts urban sonographies art, architecture and feminist strategies to visualize and redefine space Amelia V ilaplana In 1978 the Catalonian artist Eulàlia Grau contributed to the exhibition A Spoken Space — that took place for two years in Galérie Gaëtan (Genève) — with her work Occitania and Catalan-speaking regions Eulàlia's work set in action the combination of the telephone network and the symbolic space of the Gallery The piece was broadcast night and day for eight days by the answering machine During those days, Eulàlia used the telephone line to build the spoken territory of Occitania Each phone call was answered by the voice of a woman artist singing traditional songs or reading extracts from the local History and Literature Each track unfolded a virtual space that was inhabitated by the voice and the act of listening A native woman voice, speaking her mother language, stood for each region, as a kind of spoken landmark differentiating the verbal geography in the built territory Those local languages were domesticated for years: they were censored in the public sphere but were spoken in the intimacy Eulàlia's piece visualizes those spoken territories growing inwards with a sort of sonography 1977 was the year for two technological breakthroughs that influenced our way to conceive space: the popularization of the cellular telephone and the development of sonography for monitoring the first weeks of gestation This medical technique opens up at the same time new modes of visualizing bodies and new ways of figuring space This performance of spoken space was not an isolated experience Two years before, Arquitectura [Professional Magazine published by the Madrid's College of Architects] launched a “spoken issue” Those experiences show the shift of the farmacopornographic regime (P Preciado), whose logics are subverted by some architects and artists working together from feminist strategies to re-signify space and to re-imagine our cities and territories Amelia Vilaplana is an architect trained in Critical Theory and Museography at the Independent Studies Program (PEI) of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA) She has been a Teacher at the University of Alicante (2012), and has worked in collaboration with the MACBA on different projects Since 2009 she runs Vilaplana&Vilaplana Estudio Her curriculum vitae includes winning the competition to renovate the entrance of the historical Ateneo building in Madrid, the Pasajes-iGuzzini Architectural Award and Lamp International Award Her work has been published in a number magazines and books Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts ‘we’d start smashing down walls’: squatting, feminism and built environment activism in 1970s london Christine Wall By the mid-1970s London housed over 30,000 squatters, the majority in nineteenth century terraces owned by local authorities and earmarked either for demolition or rehabilitation Many of these semi-derelict houses were inhabited and restored by women and this unusual access to housing enabled radical experiments in collective living This paper uses women’s testimonies to reveal not only a multiplicity of views and memories of the intensity of political arguments around how to live as feminist, but also the desperate need for housing caused by the failure of both private rented and public sector in providing homes for young single women and single mothers The large gardens and houses provided space for communal living or were transformed into separate units They also provided places for the development of manual skills in plumbing, wiring, carpentry and joinery and roofing so that communities became self-sufficient in opening up, and making habitable, new squats Here it was young women who wielded crowbars and jimmies, not men The squats became testing grounds for young feminist women to directly interact with and control their immediate built environment through re-configuring internal architectural spaces, landscaping gardens, designing and making furniture from re-claimed timber and, for some, engaging in political activity as radical architects and housing activists Based on ongoing research, this paper focuses on one inner city area to document how this new community of women repaired and inhabited squats, interacted with statutory bodies to set up a housing co-op and liaised with feminist architects to design permanent dwellings The stories told by the women who lived in these streets, in Grade II listed houses, contributes to the intangible heritage of these dwellings, and as sites for a set of narratives foregrounding feminism in architectural and urban history For the last twenty years Christine Wall ’s research has been concerned with the social context for the production of architecture and the wider built environment, an approach exemplified in her book An Architecture of Parts: architects, building workers and industrialised building in Britain 1940–70 (Routledge, 2013) She recently led the Leverhulme Trust funded oral history project, Constructing Post-War Britain: building workers' stories 1950–1970 and is currently researching the lives of women squatters and urban activists Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts rehearsals — eight acts on the politics of listening Sophia Wiberg Petra Ba uer Rehearsals is a co-produced research project between Sofia Wiberg, PhD, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Petra Bauer, artist and PhD, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden and Tensta-Hjulsta womencenter, Sweden Between October 2013 and May 2014 eight acts were performed at Tensta Konsthall where different experimental methods for political conversations were explored together with a group of 30 persons with different backgrounds The overall theme for the acts were housing, home and living conditions Rehearsals focused on how to learn to listen, and not to understand as a political act in order to challenge segregation and discrimination with regards to knowledge production In the western world we tend to stress the importance of having a voice and to be heard It is often said that with a voice we become political subjects (Derrida 1976) Departing from the idea that the act of listening is more radical than to be heard (Bickford 1996, Spivak 1999), we ask if we in the act of listening can create a new possibility for the common By listening we not only refer to spoken words but also include gestures, feelings, movements and silences Attention to listening thus put not only focus on the production of voice but also on the receivers capacity to hear and the process where noice is transformed into voice (Metzger 2015) In other worlds, listening implies a shift in focus from‘giving voice’ to marginalized groups to focus on the conventions and practices that shapes who and what can be heard Petra Bauer is a visual artist, filmmaker and researcher Her research is about film as a political practice, where film is seen not only as a perceived medium but as a space where social and political negotiations can take place With her films, Bauer states, she wants to participate actively in a public debate, in a way where the films are not tools but rather talking and participating agents in the discussions, asking questions like: What does participation mean? When does it take place, what are the conditions of participation? And most crucially: who participates in what and where? Sofia Wiberg is a political scientist and a researcher in planning theory She has extensive experience in participatory processes, collected from her previous work with citizen dialogues Her research interests deal with issues of citizen participation, knowledge production, performative practices and practice based research In 2015, she has co-published the anthology, Medborgardialog — demokrati eller dekoration? 12 röster om dialogens problem och potential i samhällsplaneringen (Stiftelsen Arkus) Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts reproductive commons from and beyond the kitchen J ulia Wieger In recent years, the concept of the commons has been widely discussed, pointing towards ways of life beyond capitalism, not least in relation to bottom-up urban practices and alternative forms of living But ideas of commoning, too, are marked by frictions between different interests and power relations running through them While practices of commoning involve a lot of reproductive labor, many discussions on the commons avoid questions of everyday reproduction, sidelining it’s gendered nature as well as it’s relation a global economic order In contrast, Silvia Federici insists that “the production of commons requires first a profound transformation in our everyday life, in order to recombine what the social division of labor in capitalism has separated.” (Federici, 2012) In this presentation I will therefore revisit an architectural typology of the everyday—the kitchen— that has been crucial for feminist activists, architects, and researcher alike and discuss it in relation to ideas on the commons Drawing on marxist feminist theorists, like Federici or J.K Gibson-Graham, I review contemporary and historical examples of collective forms living that tackle questions of reproductive labor as well as the shape and definition of a kitchen Examples will include: the nowadays forgotten one-kitchen building (Einküchenhaus) that was discussed and tested by socialist feminists as well as middle class reformists in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century; Türkis Rosa Lila Villa, a self-administered queer co-housing project and community center for gay, lesbian and trans people in Vienna founded in 1982; a recently realized co-housing project (Baugruppe) in Vienna, comprised of 40 housing units and an 80sqm communal kitchen Assembling these examples from different times and contexts, I will will carve out the shifts and continuities in the aspirations behind them; in the resistances they met and meet; as well as in the contradictions running through them Federici, Silvia “Feminism and the Politics of the Common in an Era of Primitive Accumulation.” In Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle, edited by Silvia Federici Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012 Julia Wieger is an architect and researcher She is working as a senior scientist at the architecture department at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna where she was part of the research project Spaces of Commoning (2014–16) She is a member of the board of VBKÖ — an artist run queer feminist art space in Vienna Her work is concerned with queer feminist productions of space, archive politics and history writing, as well as collective approaches to research, knowledge production, and design Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts the fleshy analogy of shell architectures or ‘fuck the bauhaus’ F reya Wigzell This paper looks at the representation of the feminine in architecture through the medium of shells The focus is on how shells have provided the literal means and allegorical inspiration for mutational and morphological architectural effects, those that have often historically been demarcated and labelled ‘feminine’ Drawing from a number of feminist theories that pertain to the female body as corporeal ‘Other’ — from texts such as Christine Battersby’s Phenomenal Woman (1998), Elizabeth Grosz’s Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (1994) — and analyzing a range of shell examples across different architectural representational devices, including Goodwood Shell House (1840s), Le Corbusier’s deployment of shells in his Le poème de l'angle droit, (1953), and German artist Isa Genzken’s Fuck the Bauhaus: Buildings of New York (2010), the paper explores how the appearance of shells in architecture have perverted, dissimulated and contaminated the male symbolic order across different historic locations and architectural typologies The objective of the paper is to shed light on a specific type of relationship between shells, architecture and the feminine that has been of long standing, but also, to reflect upon what the status of that relationship is today Shells are still providing architects with inspiration, their geometry and variety lends itself to the digital generation, but far more generally the historic use of shells in architecture foreshadows, through a natural order, the morphological effects, excessive ornament, and non-standard architecture now being produced through computational methods (Maak, 2011) Can these contemporary architectures still be perceived as coded as feminine in some way? Freya Wigzell is a third year PhD student on the Architectural History and Theory program at the Bartlett Her research focuses on the different ways shells have been employed in architecture from the early modern period to the present day Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts the family dinner Hanna Wil dow On a night of 2015, eleven women gathered in a private residence with a task: When history has eradicated our story, we must write it ourselves In a six-hour long performance neglected sources were repeated, re-enacted, and reimagined History has been taught as a long, linear pipeline of canonic voices; generating gaps that echoes from its missing tones The word itself, history, resonates too, as stories of his, rather than of hers Despite that its etymology unveils no correlation to the male possessive pronoun, its effects Or, as fellow practitioner Imri Sandström writes, “Even though the word history’s roots don’t lead to his, its routes do.” This paper will performativily explore and perform an archive Trailing through neglected sources — such as poems, diaries, dreams, doubts, imaginations — it re-enacts some of that nights dialogues Through LARP (Live Action Role Play) as a method, tracings were pronounced while an archive was simultaneously explored and composed Everyone present carefully documented the performance, and a digital archive was built to elongate the dialogues This digital archive will be at display as an installation throughout the conference The premises of this performance/paper is that an archive is a shifting space within which bodies can move, themselves as well as the stories it contains The historical document will be put at stake, when cross-examinations of terms such as truth, fact and knowledge are posed What can fiction provide us when history has prevented us from our pasts? How can our own voices resonate what has been silenced? Which dynamics of power comes into play when ones own body consumes another’s voice? How does narratives shift when spoken languages cannot be consumed? Where does our text start and where does it not end? This performance/paper will touch upon its questions in the setting of a dinner Hanna Wildow (1983), artist, writer, curator and scholar with MFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design Lives in Stockholm and makes works that explores reconstructions and articulations of written and unwritten stories Co-founded headquarters for queer feminist art Högkvarteret (2009), has presented internationally in New York (Participant Inc, The New Museum, Silvershed), Los Angeles (Human Resources, Charles James Gallery, UCI, USC), Manila (2016 London Biennale MANILA Pollination) and in Sweden (Konsthall C, Malmö Konsthall etc.) Has published in multiple publications, most recently in Kritiker (2015), Randy Zine 2010–2013 (2016), and HAUNT Journal of Art (2016) Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts finding memory Nadja Hjorton & Katarina Winter Finding Memory is a feminist interdisciplinary project in which choreographer Nadja Hjorton and sociologist Katarina Winter investigate memories and memory practices The project aims to find alternative physical narratives and positions in memories experienced by the body Since the beginning of the project Katarina and Nadja have looked in to theories about subjectivity and the writing of history, post-humanism, critical race studies, post-colonial feminist theory, and dis/ability studies Together with sound designer Elize Arvefjord, a piece was made for individual one at a time personal experiences The 12 minutes long performance aims to displace perspectives The work explores how our memories are pervaded by the norms and ideals in society Is it possible to separate personal experience from our societal/collective narratives? How much of our memory is constructed by language? And if power structures and oppression exists in language, can we find alternative ways to express our memories? Nadja and Katarina wanted to create a piece that initiates processes around memory within the participants: what our memories tell about subjectivity, identity, and ourselves? Is it possible to change memories? The piece also wants to let the audience members experience these thoughts in a space that is normally used for something other than performance — an office, a broom closet, a corridor, a waiting room or a conference Finding Memory is the first part of the project The second part — Pocket of Time — will continue during 2017 Nadja and Katarina will then work together with architect Petra Lindfors and explore theories that concern productivity, efficiency and work in the public sphere They will explore time shifts and experiences of the time based on structural conditions and positions (gender, class, age, functionality, race) Nadja Hjorton is a choreographer with a long experience of working collectively with feminist practices She is interested in using choreographic methods to challenge power relationships and expand notions about what dance and choreography can be Katarina Winter is a PhD student in sociology She is interested in popularization, communication and interpretation of scientific knowledge and in the power relations within such interaction Nadja and Katarina are both members of ÖFAkollektivet Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts rinkeby: exploring feminist design tools Erika Fagerberg M arina Ziakouli At the centre of Rinkeby, as one exits the metro, lies a square always filled with people From the earliest hours of the morning to late at night, groups of people are found standing there, caught in loud discussions The square, although lively, is dominated to a large degree by men Whether this situation is a consequence of poor programming, cultural traditions, the physical expression at the square or some other factor is not determined The result, however, is still that women rarely occupy the public spaces in and around the heart of Rinkeby This paper sets out to describe the process of our thesis conducted in spring of 2016, in which we aimed to explore ways to redefine the relationship of gender and space through urban design, recognizing at the same time what problems urban design can and cannot address The questions this project tried to answer were: how differently women experience public spaces and why? What steps can be taken towards a more gender equal public experience? And, how can urban design contribute to this process? Having a good understanding of the theoretical context of feminist geography provided us with tools in the attempt to tackle distantiation, spatial separation, constraint and the limited spatial opportunities women experience in public places Using Rinkeby square as the canvas for this exploration, the effort was put on mapping the current situation and imagining possible futures through experiential methods, observation, as well as interviews with residents, shop keepers, local actors, associations and networks Erika Fagerberg holds a Bachelor in Architecture from Newcastle University and worked in practice for a couple of years before following the Sustainable Urban Planning and Design master program at KTH She is currently working in Sundbyberg Municipality Marina Ziakouli is originally from Greece, and holds a Master in Planning and Regional Development from University of Thessaly and in Sustainable Urban Planning and Design from KTH She is currently following Gender studies, in Linköping University Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts slow mo creatures — a sci-fi novel on the ecology of time Malin Zimm This paper is informed by the observation that time perception differs between different-sized species This is what enables a fly to avoid being swatted, since the human hand moves in slow motion in relation to the insect The smaller an animal is, the faster its metabolic rate and the slower its perception of time is This biological research forms the outline of a sci-fi story that unfolds as part of the paper, featuring Suri Moucha who is genetically equipped with very sharp vision, not in the depth of space but in the depths of time She thinks that her skills are the result of genetic preconditioning, a natural ability detected early in her childhood, then perfected by training to bring her to the unique role in the international intelligence agency where she works since her teens In fact, she might be an adscript serf to the global surveillance system that she is a key component of, to the expense of her social life, and even her own life expectancy Her abilities are highly demanded in a future of so-called unrestricted warfare and assymetrical threats, where the speed and accuracy of analysis is crucial since everyone is exposed to an abundance of information By looking deeply into time, rather than just observing space, Suri is able to spot anomalies and security threats, where AIs go wrong In Suri’s future, people have learned to outsmart the digital systems that were developed in our time to interpret human behavior and detect risks, such as the American FAST — Future Attribution Systems Technology The future is a race between machine intelligence mapping human irrationality, and biological entities responding with precision-acting and body control The paper examines the ecology of time and the spatiotemporal and social effects of manipulated perception Malin Zimm is an architect PhD, currently a Research and Analysis strategist at White arkitekter Zimm has previously been employed as Senior Advisor in Architecture at ArkDes (Swedish Center for Architecture and Design), editor-in-chief of the architecture magazine Rum and teaching assignments at KTH School of Architecture and Konstfack Zimm completed her doctorate studies at KTH School of Architecture in 2005 with the thesis Losing the Plot — Architecture and Narrativity in Fin-de-Siècle Media Cultures, investigating pre-digital virtual architecture Zimm is a contributor to Swedish and international architecture magazines and publications since 1999 Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts feminisms in conflict Maria Ärlemo In spring 2015 a group of engaged women in Husby, a large scale residential suburb of Stockholm marked by economic and ethnic, some even argue racial discrimination, initiated a project about what they termed ‘feminist city planning’ Although the initiative was not initially responded to by the local authorities the concept quickly gained momentum and attention both within national and international media And the phones at the School of Architecture in Stockholm began to ring, as journalists in search of experts called for comment upon the initiative as well as to define what the concept meant Based on an ethnographic exploration of the project that followed in Husby due to the initiative, more specifically participant observation of a series of workshops, qualitative interviews with engaged actors, and an exploration of the media discourse that the initiative spurred, this paper explores what feminisms were expressed, embodied and practiced within the project The paper argues that the project was marked by a multitude of feminist perspectives, but also that the notion of feminism was used differently, by different actors, for different purposes The term ‘feminist city planning’ was initially used by residents in Husby to bring attention to local needs, but as the project evolved it also became used as a tactic by engaged actors to gain media attention, to promote a political agenda and to produce personal gains and economic profit Drawing on the concept of intersectionality, as elaborated by Paulina de los Reyes and Diana Mulinari, the paper explores how some feminisms expressed within the project came to dominate Ultimately the paper discusses the potential for critically engaged architectural practices to contribute to counter strategies, and the question of how space could be made for a more polyphonic discourse on feminism Maria Ärlemo is an architect and PhD candidate within the division of Critical Studies at the School of Architecture, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden She holds a Master degree in Architecture from KTH and has qualifications in ethnology from the University of Stockholm and urban sociology from Berkeley, University of California, USA Her PhD research explores local discourses on justice, as they have emerged in relation to currently ongoing processes of renovation in largescale post-war housing areas in Sweden marked by economic and ethnic segregation The research aims to contribute to the development of justice perspectives on architectural practices, and to inform critically engaged architectural practices Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts in search of the living heritage after marie hoeg and bolette berg Die bösen Mösen (Thérèse Kristiansson & hannah G oldstein ) “Since 2003, hannah goldstein and Thérèse Kristiansson are working together in the feminist art collaboration Die bösen Mösen (“the mischievous cunts”) While based in Stockholm and Berlin, they work in various artistic fields such as performance, photography, video and street art Through interventions in the public space their aim is to visualize seemingly invisible structures of representation The way gender, sexuality, race and class is represented in the city is their main subject of interest.” — Conny Becker, curator of Female Interventions, Little Humbold Gallery, Berlin, 2013 In search of the living heritage after Marie Hoeg and Bolette Berg was created as part of the project Family Dinner by artist and curator Hanna Wildow Family Dinner is an archival project, where women artists are invited to trace through archives of womens’ texts and works, while at the same time constructing a collective record Orchestrated in a collaborative performance that unfurls over and converge in a certain time and space; the stories of women present as well as those absent are weaved together I n search of the living heritage after Marie Hoeg and Bolette Berg will be shown in entrance level of the Architetcure School and at DOCH during the Salon Architecture & Feminisms Book of Abstracts listen up! Sofia Wiberg Stina Nyberg Although listening holds a central position in communication and politics it has been disregarded through a too one-sided focus on the voice (Lacey, 2014) Listening, in difference from the speech act, has been bound up in a cultural hierarchy of the senses that privileges the visual over the auditory and a logocentric frame in which listening is positioned as something passive, as opposed to acts of writing, reading and speaking This connection to passivity has hindered listening to be seen as a political action (ibid) With these thoughts as a starting point we want to rethink listening as an embodied and critical activity With listening we not only refer to words, but also to atmospheres, body languages and silences If we learn to listen, we cannot decide in advance what we want to listen to Listening encompasses unpredictability: to listen, to see, to experience, without making preconditioned judgements, interpretations, or analyses We could say that the act of mutual listening directs us to that which we not already know: to listen for the unexpected In this conference we want to explore the politics of listening through the practice of listening Acknowledging how we are already surrounded by impressions we try to avoid discovering something new in favour of listening to the already existing In this gymnastics for the senses we invite the doing to theorize itself Stina Nyberg works as a choreographer and dancer Her work departs the social, biological and political construction of the body, and its ability to move Sofia Wiberg holds a PhD at the Urban and Regional studies division at KTH She has experience of working with participatory processes in planning Her work concerns dialogue, performativity and practice based knowledge They have previously collaborated within “Rehearsals — acts on the politics of listening” (2013–14), initiated by Sofia Wiberg together with Petra Bauer, and participated in the symposium “Participatory Practices in Art and Architecture” (2015) They share an interest in participation, embodied knowledges and embarrassing encounters .. .Architecture & Feminisms Intro duction Book of Abstracts 13th architectural humanities research association international conference architecture and feminisms: ecologies, economies, technologies. .. Between architecture and feminisms our specific focus is upon transversal relations across ecologies, economies and technologies Specifically, we are concerned with the exploration of ecologies. .. sustainable and resilient mental, social and environmental ecologies The AHRA 2016 Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies conference creates a space in which to exchange